page_title: 1954
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1954 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: English: American gospel singer and musician Washington Phillips (1880-1954) with two zithers.
context_page_description: 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: September 1 – Bert Acosta, American aviator (b. 1895)
  September 2 – Franz Leopold Neumann,  German- political activist and Marxist theorist (b. 1900)
  September 3 – Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889)
  September 5 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
  September 6 – Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (b. 1877)
  September 7
  Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
  Glenn Scobey Warner, American college football coach (b. 1871)
  September 8 – André Derain, French artist, painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
  September 20 – Washington Phillips, American gospel singer and instrumentalist (b. 1880)
  September 21 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)
  September 24 – Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide) (b. 1904)
  September 25 – Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish writer (b. 1881)
  September 26 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
  September 27 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
  September 28 – Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885)
  September 29 – Martin Wetzer, Finnish general (b. 1868)
caption: Washington Phillips
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